So I had a pretty terrible first attempt at my laminate job and had to cut out and fill some of the delam spots. After patching and sanding the board is good to go but it is ugly as anything. I want to paint the board now to cover up my screw ups. Is it better to paint on the laminate before the hot coat. Or to hot coat and then paint on the hot coat. From what I have ready I should use some sort of water based acrylic paint, correct. Will I then need to use a gloss coat? Can the gloss coat be spray on acrylic clear coat.
I get the lam as smooth as I can, hot coat, sand smooth to 400, paint with an acrylic, taped off to any pattern or not, paint it (usually a brush), MAKE SURE IT IS BONE DRY before spraying clear or, what I do, another hotcoat and final sanding to 600.
Funny, acrylic over the same colored lam will look like Volan.
Do a fill coat… a thin hotcoat that just fills in the weave and helps you fair out the patches… then sand it smooth. Thin your paint and spray it through a gun if you can, or… I’ve had good success with a short knapp mini roller. Two coats. Might as well do pin lines or fades at this point, too. Gloss over that, or spray on a few coats of acrylic.
I appreciate your help. These first boards seem to be a lot of covering up and figuring out how to fix mistakes. Next batch will hopefully go much smoother. I have learned so much in just two boards it is crazy. Again I appreciate the help from all on the site